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3107829 No.3107829 [Reply] [Original]

What do you think of Animal Farm. Is it worth reading?

>> No.3107834

>>3107829
Its pretty short, you should read it and tell us what you think about it.

>> No.3107847

Gave it to my younger cousins to read. Their reactions were priceless.

>> No.3107991

I adored it. Hell, I guess I still do. It's a fun little thing.

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>>3107829

Not only "worth reading" but "required reading" as an antidote for the modern state worship that is force fed into young minds

>> No.3108063

>>3107829
It is wonderfully crafted and delightfully written. The prose read's almost like a children's book.

>> No.3108071

I dont know, when i read it the anti collectivist and anti state ideas jumped out at me pretty quickly, but everyone keeps telling me that orwell was a socialist. WTF?

>> No.3108072

>>3108071
Animal Farm is more against stanilism than socialism.

>> No.3108074

>>3108071
Well, the animals break free of the cruel human regime through socialism, right? It's corruption and greed that fuck it up.

>> No.3108078

>>3108071
I haven't read Animal Farm, but I have read 1984, and I can hazard a guess that he's writing against Stalinesque communism.

>> No.3108079

>>3108071
What's the problem?

>> No.3108082

>>3108074
Uh, no, the main difference between socialism and communism in the historical-political sense was that communists advocated violent overthrow where socialists advocated changes through protest and legislation. They want the same thing, but their methods are entirely different.
And Animal Farm was a satire of Stalinism, which Orwell saw as a corrupted form of socialism that established a dictatorial aristocracy.

>> No.3108098

I mean about the animals (those who benefit from collectivism) running the horse (most productive member of the society) into the ground.

>> No.3108116

>>3108082
That's not really the difference at all.

Orwell was definitely in favour of violent overthrow: he fought in the Spanish Civil War.

Thing is, socialism doesn't mean totalitarianism. That's what he wrote against.

>> No.3108139

>>3107829
Animal Farm is a childhood favorite of mine, and no, that doesn't mean that it's for kids. It means that I still remember it after all of these years, and after going through it recently I still think it's wonderful. So yes OP, it is worth reading and you should read it.